City workers in the La Defense business district of Paris, France, on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. <\/p>\n
Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/p>\n
European markets turned positive after opening mixed on Tuesday, in a holiday-shortened trading week.<\/p>\n
The pan-European Stoxx 600<\/a> index edged 0.2% higher by 9:30 a.m. London time (4.30 a.m. ET) to break through 590 points \u2013 a new record.<\/p>\n The U.K.’s FTSE<\/a>, France’s CAC 40<\/a>, and Germany’s DAX<\/a> all traded about 0.2% higher, while Italy’s FTSE MIB<\/a> gained 0.7%.<\/p>\n Mining stocks topped the blue-chip index with Fresnillo<\/a> gaining 3.5%. Peer miners Anglo American<\/a>, Antofagasta<\/a>, and Glencore<\/a> rose between 2.6% and 1.8%. <\/p>\n Gains came as gold<\/a> and silver<\/a> futures were on the rise Tuesday morning as well. Gold edged up 1% to last trade at $4,386.30 an ounce while silver jumped 5.2% to $74.10 an ounce. Silver was on a rollercoaster ride Monday<\/a>, hitting a record in the early morning hours, before paring gains and logging its worst day since 2021.<\/p>\n Regional bourses closed mixed on Monday, with defense stocks struggling as talks continue to agree on a framework peace agreement to end the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n Asia-Pacific markets mostly fell overnight after the tech sell-off on Wall Street continued on Monday amid AI bubble fears.<\/p>\n Nvidia<\/a>\u00a0shares dropped more than 1% Monday stateside, giving back some of its more than 5% gain in last week’s trading session.\u00a0Palantir Technologies<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Meta Platforms<\/a>\u00a0also suffered losses, as did\u00a0Oracle<\/a>.<\/p>\n U.S. stocks were largely unchanged in premarket trading, with the big tech names making minimal moves. <\/strong><\/p>\n There are no major earnings or data releases in Europe on Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Lim Hui Jie and Sarah Min contributed to this market report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City workers in the La Defense business district of Paris, France, on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. Nathan Laine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[202395,111717,4959,51,3085,7426,7425,32,36,111712,1880,15158,1824,202396,131206,2199,2441,202397,5191,16,657,15,49,2601],"class_list":{"0":"post-662295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-anglo-american-plc","9":"tag-antofagasta-plc","10":"tag-breaking-news-markets","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-business-news","13":"tag-cac-40-index","14":"tag-dax","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-fresnillo-plc","18":"tag-ftse-100","19":"tag-ftse-mib","20":"tag-germany","21":"tag-glencore-plc","22":"tag-gold-comex-dec25","23":"tag-italy","24":"tag-markets","25":"tag-silver-comex-sep25","26":"tag-stoxx-600","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-ukraine","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-united-states","31":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115808140309723810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}